Evelyn Gianna, 104

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Former Staten Islander Evelyn Gianna, 104, a homemaker who was the first female member of the Richmond Borough Gun Club, died April 10 at the Little Flower assisted living facility in Charlotte, N.C., where she had been a resident for three years.

Born Evelyn Fagan in St. George, she moved to West Brighton in the early 1940s; to St. Petersburg, Fla., in the early 1960s, and to Charlotte in 1998.

She was a former parishioner of Blessed Sacrament R.C. Church, West Brighton.

Mrs. Gianna was an accomplished artist, published writer, a pianist and avid pool player and golfer.

A competitive rifle shooter who won many medals, her family said she was the first woman allowed to join the Richmond Borough Gun Club.

Her husband of 49 years, Edward J., died in 1978. Her son Edward died in 2000.